Glenn Kessler fact-checks claims by Michele Bachmann: “So now we find out these people are making decisions based on our politics and beliefs, and they’re going to be in charge of our health care. There’s a huge national database that’s being created right now. Your health care, my health care, all the Fox viewers health…
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EEOC Gets Tough With Companies on Genetic Privacy
Sue Reisinger writes: Earlier this month the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed— and quickly settled—its first lawsuit accusing an employer of gathering illegal genetic information during a job applicant’s medical exam. The agency followed it up last Thursday by filing its first class action suit against another employer on similar grounds. The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act went into effect…
Tonight on Fox Business News: "Medical Identify Theft"
Tonight, The Willis Report‘s investigative series on medical privacy continues with host Gerry Willis and panelists Pam Dixon of the World Privacy Forum and Dr. Keith Ablow, psychiatrist and Fox News contributor. Pam and the World Privacy Forum have been pioneers in increasing public awareness of the risks of medical identity theft. Date: Monday, May…
Fox Business News "Medical Privacy Week" investigative series starts tonight!
Via PPR: Tonight “The Willis Report” starts an investigative series titled “Medical Privacy Week.” The opening night will feature Patient Privacy Rights’ Founder, Dr. Deborah Peel, and Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Tomorrow the show features Pam Dixon with the World Privacy Forum. This is the first series on national…
For an extra paltry £140, private insurer can buy identifiable data on NHS patients
Randeep Ramesh reports: Private health firms, including Bupa, can pay £140 to identify potentially millions of patients and then access their health records, detailing intimate medical histories, under a new national arrangement in the NHS, the Guardian can reveal. The records, which include sensitive information about hospital visits, such as a mother’s history of still births,…
Dismissing a student for blogging about patients – free speech v. confidentiality agreements in the Sixth Circuit
Long-time readers may remember the case of Nina Yoder, a nursing student who was expelled from the University of Louisville School of Nursing [SON] in 2009 for allegedly breaching the honor code and confidentiality agreements she had signed by her posts on MySpace. A district judge had ordered her reinstatement in August 2009, and Yoder…